'Facade' definitions:
Definition of 'facade'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant [syn: facade, window dressing]
Definition of 'Facade'
From: GCIDE
- Facade \Fa`[,c]ade"\ (f[.a]`s[.a]d" or f[.a]`s[=a]d"), n. [F., fr. It. facciata, fr. faccia face, L. facies. See Face.] (Arch.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its fa[,c]ade unfinished, though the interior may be in use. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'facade'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- anteriority,
- apology,
- apparent character,
- appearance,
- appearances,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- border,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- cheating,
- circumference,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cortex,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- covering,
- crust,
- deception,
- delusion,
- device,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- envelope,
- epidermis,
- excuse,
- exterior,
- exteriors,
- external,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fringe,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- head,
- heading,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- integument,
- lame excuse,
- lap,
- lineaments,
- locus standi,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere externals,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- obverse,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outline,
- outside,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- periphery,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rind,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shell,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- skin,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- superficiality,
- superficies,
- superstratum,
- surface,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- top,
- trick,
- unnaturalness,
- vain show,
- varnish,
- veil,
- veneer,
- window dressing